The first concert of the Ciompi Presents 2022 Summer Chamber Music Series is presented by Caroline Stinson, cellist, performing with the Lydian String Quartet. The program, titled Invention and Discovery, includes Andrew Waggoner's fifth quartet, Invention and Sinfonia by John Harbison, a quintet based on a theme by Shakespeare, and the great Schubert Cello Quintet - three works that open vast, immersive vistas of sound. Enhanced Musical Reality, no goggles needed.
Program: John Harbison: Invention on a Theme of Shakespeare for solo cello and string quartet Andrew Waggoner: Fifth Quartet (commissioned for the Lydian by the Fromm Foundation) Schubert: String Quintet in C Major D.956
PLEASE NOTE: this concert takes place at Trinity Ave. Presbyterian Church, 927 West Trinity Ave, Durham, NC.
Admission (for this concert only) is free. A non-perishable food item for the Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church's food pantry is requested.
From its beginning in 1980, the Lydian String Quartet (Andrea Segar and Judith Eissenberg, violins; Mark Berger, viola; Joshua Gordon, cello) has been acclaimed by audiences and critics across the USA and abroad for embracing the full range of the string quartet repertory with curiosity, virtuosity, and dedication to the highest artistic ideals of music making. In its formative years, the quartet studied repertoire with Robert Koff, a founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet who had joined the Brandeis University faculty in 1958. Forging a personality of their own, the Lydians were awarded top prizes in international string quartet competitions, including Evian, Portsmouth and Banff, culminating in 1984 with the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music.